Alexis Yeboah-Kodie

Climate Justice Fellow

Alexis Yeboah-Kodie joined EarthRights in 2025. She assists Black and Indigenous frontline communities protect their land and water stewardship efforts and preserve their cultures and heritages. At the core of her work is a desire to foster right relationship between humanity, the natural world, and sacred spaces.

Alexis started her legal career as a Skadden Fellow, and then Staff Attorney, with the Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana. There, she addressed a variety of issues related to the criminalization of poverty, including child support debt relief for incarcerated parents. Alexis has also worked with community and movement lawyering organizations both domestically and abroad on many issues, including police brutality, the privatization of public goods, and climate justice.

During law school, Alexis provided her passion for community in Harvard’s International Human Rights clinic and in the Ghana Project clinic. She also served as the Co-Executive Director of the Prison Legal Assistance Project. Upon graduation, she received the prestigious William J. Stuntz Memorial award in recognition of her exemplary social impact. Alexis earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and her BA in Psychology from Columbia University. She is admitted to practice law in Louisiana.